xhochy commented on a change in pull request #7753:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7753#discussion_r454437578
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File path: python/pyarrow/jvm.py
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@@ -43,9 +43,14 @@ def jvm_buffer(arrowbuf):
pyarrow.Buffer
Python Buffer that references the JVM memory.
"""
+ import jpype
address = arrowbuf.memoryAddress()
size = arrowbuf.capacity()
- return pa.foreign_buffer(address, size, arrowbuf.asNettyBuffer())
+
+ # TODO: why can we not use arrowbuf as the base?
Review comment:
Yes, it probably leaks then. I thought that when the Java object gets
garbage collected that the memory would be freed. As this doesn't seem to be
the case, this is a problem.
Not sure though how to call something when an object is GC'ed on the Python
side.
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